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1835 Organizational Church Members
Old Congragational Church
Town of Cassville
Oneida County, New York


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"Cassville, Feb. 19, 1835. We Jas. Marsh and Truman Benham presiding officers of a meeting held in Cassville Cong. meeting house on Feb. 18, 1835, which meeting was duly notified according to law for the purpose of organizing a religious society in said place and appointing trustees, do certify that Jas. Marsh, Miles Stanley and Gaius Smith were duly appointed by a plurality of votes given by ballot at said meeting as trustees of the society to be known by the name of Cassville Cong. Society. Given under our hands and seals this 19th day of Feb. A. D. 1835.
Signed: Jas. Marsh and Truman Benham
in presence of Edwin Beers and A. W. Benham, both Oneida Co.

Jan. 27, 1835. "At a meeting held at Cassville, present, Rev. Wm. Tompkins, Alfred Hough and B. B. Hotchkin, the Rev. Wm. Tompkins was chosen Moderator and Rev. A. Hough scribe." The following persons were present and were organized into a Congregational Church and consecrated by Rev. William Tompkins:



Feb. 8, 1835 (From records of 1st Cong. Ch. of Bridgewater). "The following persons were granted letters of dismission from the 1st Cong. Ch. of Bridgewater to the Cong. Ch. of Cassville:


L. Hull, clerk.

June 11. 1837. Letter granted to Jerusha Robbins from 1st Cong. Ch. Bridgewater to Cong. Ch. at Cassville. (From records of 1st Cong. Ch., Bridgewater).

Note. No further records of this church have been found. It probably did not remain long in existence. - G. E. B.